Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published17 Oct 2025
- disclosed29 Nov 2017
Introduced: 29 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-17095 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
tools/pal2rgb.c in pal2rgb in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TIFFSetupStrips heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102124
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17095
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43322/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2750
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/30/3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00027.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/